I've never thought of myself as any kind of activist, though I've participated in my labor union's demonstrations and rallies, but I'd like to know how other professing believers think that we should respond to the world's blasphemies.
Yesterday afternoon I decided to go a local theatre to watch the new star wars film for nostalgia's sake, but during the seemingly endless previews and commercials before the movie, I saw a trailer for a new X-men movie that is scheduled to be released in May. The plot is about "the first or original mutant" and how he went by many names through the centuries and one of the names given in the trailer was the covenant name of God found in scripture. I found this disturbing on multiple levels, as I was a fan of Marvel comics when I was a child and a fan of the Marvel comic based movies since they started coming out. I once met Stan Lee at a comic book convention in NYC, and he seemed a bit arrogant, but I never would have pegged him as an enemy of God and Christ, because the stories that he wrote always seemed to be based in sound morality and a conviction for justice. I don't know if he actually wrote the material that was in the trailer, but I assume that he would have some say as to how the plot was handled.
I could just boycott the movie, though doing so is unlikely to have much affect upon the box office revenue, but is this the only legitimate response to such a thing?
I don't go to the theatre very often, but I do enjoy watching movies and prefer fantasy and science fiction to most genres, but I'm not particularly happy with production companies that play "fast and loose" with the biblical narrative (as in the recent productions of "Noah" and "Exodus"), and outright blasphemy seems a bit more serious than the fantasies added to biblical narrative to broaden viewer appeal. This isn't the first film to blaspheme the Lord and probably won't be the last (I once saw a movie that portrayed Christ as an alien visitor and even the Star Trek motion picture series dove into religious blasphemy in "The final frontier".)
What do you think should be the response of Christians to such attempts to delegitimize our faith through popular films and the entertainment industry?
Yesterday afternoon I decided to go a local theatre to watch the new star wars film for nostalgia's sake, but during the seemingly endless previews and commercials before the movie, I saw a trailer for a new X-men movie that is scheduled to be released in May. The plot is about "the first or original mutant" and how he went by many names through the centuries and one of the names given in the trailer was the covenant name of God found in scripture. I found this disturbing on multiple levels, as I was a fan of Marvel comics when I was a child and a fan of the Marvel comic based movies since they started coming out. I once met Stan Lee at a comic book convention in NYC, and he seemed a bit arrogant, but I never would have pegged him as an enemy of God and Christ, because the stories that he wrote always seemed to be based in sound morality and a conviction for justice. I don't know if he actually wrote the material that was in the trailer, but I assume that he would have some say as to how the plot was handled.
I could just boycott the movie, though doing so is unlikely to have much affect upon the box office revenue, but is this the only legitimate response to such a thing?
I don't go to the theatre very often, but I do enjoy watching movies and prefer fantasy and science fiction to most genres, but I'm not particularly happy with production companies that play "fast and loose" with the biblical narrative (as in the recent productions of "Noah" and "Exodus"), and outright blasphemy seems a bit more serious than the fantasies added to biblical narrative to broaden viewer appeal. This isn't the first film to blaspheme the Lord and probably won't be the last (I once saw a movie that portrayed Christ as an alien visitor and even the Star Trek motion picture series dove into religious blasphemy in "The final frontier".)
What do you think should be the response of Christians to such attempts to delegitimize our faith through popular films and the entertainment industry?